The newest addition to our guesthouse is working well and sure is making it nicer for our guests to wait for and look at the Northern Lights. The pictures we took the day we finished the project show how cosy it can be!

We have had many beautiful Northern Lights nights already this season, and our guests appreciate a lot to have a shelter to be in, now when the nights are getting colder and sometimes quite windy.

We do all we can to help our guests to get to see the Northern Lights. We even wake them up if the lights appear after bedtime!

I have never seen so much activity in the forecast before! We have had several beautiful nights already this fall. We are prepared for the winter as the forecast for the lights is very good for the season.

We are very glad we built the Northern Lights shelter, so our guests can enjoy the lights without being outside in the cold weather. We turn out all lights and even wake up our guests so they can enjoy, if they have already gone to bed.

We are honored when our guests decide to spend their very special days in life here.
Recently stayed with us a lovely Danish family. They told us their 25 years wedding anniversary was the next day.
We knew it is a big day in the Danish culture. We wanted to do something special for them.
Valur went to Dalsgardur the rose farm in our valley and bought 25 red roses and I baked a french chocolate cake.
Life is wonderful, enjoy the day.

We thoroughly have enjoyed every day since we opened our guesthouse.
We are so thankful to all our wonderful guests for writing nice things about their stay, that have made us receive awards from TripAdvisor, all the 6 years since we opened Minna-Mosfell Guesthouse.
We feel honored and very thankful.
Life is wonderful!

This week we had a very beautiful Northern Lights show at Minna-Mosfell Guesthouse.
As I saw a bit of them the night before, I set my alarm at 1 am and there they were, even it was just August 19th!
I rushed to the Guesthouse and woke up our guests, so they could enjoy the show.
Our new Northern Lights shelter came in good use, the guests could stand inside enjoying the show.
We have never seen them in August before!

On a rainy day this week I found this letter on the table in our guesthouse after a lovely family left. They had stayed with us for some days.
Even it was rainy outside it brought sunshine in my mind reading it!
Dear family, thank you so much. I hope to see you again before to long.
All my wonderful guests make me love my work

Travelers’ Choice awards are the highest honor TripAdvisor can give – meaning your business
is truly exceptional. Based on reviews and opinions from millions of travelers, you’re in the
top 1% of hotels.

We want to send our warmest greetings and thanks to all our wonderful guests, that have ranked us so high in their reviews.

Now is the time for Þorrablót,in Iceland, a midwinter Viking feast which is an old tradition, when we eat þorramat, which is an old traditional food, that most people just eat at this time of the year.

Þorrablót can be anything from an informal dinner at home with family and friends up to a big event with dinner, offering this kind of food and a dance afterwards.

Last weekend we had our friends over for Þorrablót in our home.

Tonight, I offered our nice guests staying with us this week, to taste some of the food, I still have left, kept in lactic acid. Such as sheep head pâté, whale and pressed ram testicles that all has been left for weeks in lactic acid to get the right taste!

I also offered them “harðfisk” wich is dried fish, we love with some butter.

Last but not least, I offered them to taste our wonderful fermented shark with “Brennivín” the Icelandic snaps, that is good along with the shark!

A beautiful day today, sunny, calm with fresh snow. It is also a day with good news for us at Minna-Mosfell Guesthouse as TripAdvisor just send us an announcement that we are number 1 in Iceland, 11 in Europe and 17 in the world in our catagory B&Bs and Inns in the year in Travelers’ Choice .
Once again we want to thank all our wonderful guests that have stayed with us. We are deeply honoured by this.

Hello Gudrun,
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About us

Minna-Mosfell guesthouse is run by Guðrún Sigurðardóttir and Valur Þorvaldsson. Valur and Guðrún have lived in Minna-Mosfell since 1997 and in addition to running the guesthouse they run a small farm with horses and chicken.

Guðrún is a retired home-economics teacher from an elementary school in Mosfellsbær and was for the last few years of teaching involved in outdoor education and environmental awareness education.

Valur is a farmer and a retired agricultural agent, and he can as well be found working his tractor or riding on a horseback.

We have both had the luxury of traveling to see the world and take pleasure in learning about the different cultures we encounter.

Among our interests are history, the nature and culture of our country and the valley we live in and we are eager to pass on our knowledge to interested guests.